CVE-2025-14983
Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.4
Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
- Record
CVE-2025-14983- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-207561
6.4
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
- Record
EUVD-2025-207561- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37
6.4
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site...
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
- Record
GHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
6.4
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
- Record
CVE-2025-14983- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-14983 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) in Justinkruit Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field, published February 19, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.33%, the 26th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c495d7f6-6d4a-4b1a-90f9-5273e7773d7a?source=cve
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3435775%40advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome&new=3435775%40advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14983
github.com/advisories/GHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37